I was just, like, ‘If I don’t put this song on the record that scares me, what’s the point? Indeed, he was so supportive that Lindeman — who has led the Weather Station through a number of solo and band permutations over the past decade — was emboldened to take on the tasks of producing and all of the string arrangements on The Weather Station herself. But the Weather Station emerged from the other end unscathed, with its finest work to date in the can and a sleek, electrified new sound that now begs comparisons to Patti Smith, the War on Drugs, Kurt Vile and P.J. It’s like a vice grip and you just start to feel really angry . It just makes no sense.”Moreover, fronting a slightly louder version of the Weather Station is simply just more fun than staring down clubs with a set list heavy on the sombre, stately and thoroughly soft-spoken repertoire that was once Lindeman’s stock in trade.

Source: thestar November 20, 2017 23:26 UTC